In contrast to the pessimism of my earlier posting about the demise of mass media and the decline of traditional media, a commentary by A. O. Scott suggests that today’s media users seek pith and character and, in response, electronic reading devices like Kindle might lead to a the resurgence of the short story, just as the iPod changed the focus from the album to the song.
In other words, despite the sadness of the loss of what we know, something good might be on the horizon.
Read Scott’s piece at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/weekinreview/05scott.html?ref=weekinreview.
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